Ha squirrel repellent. I've dehydrated nearly 50 lbs of yellow onions recently, and the only one repelled was our youngest daughter when she was visiting. No one else here seems to mind, but I do open a window. I've ended up with 2 number 10 cans full and 3 large mason jars, and still have about 15 large onions to go. It was a good price, around $18 for the 50 lbs, and I won't need dried onions for a super long time now. I got a great price on Roma tomatoes, so sliced tomatoes are in the Excalibur now (69 cents lb), and the other dehydrator I have I've been filling with rose petals to use in rose potpourri and other projects for Christmas. Roses at home and at the preschool are blooming like mad right now, so I grab them when the petals look like they're going to drop. That stupid squirrel turned that room upside down. Still cant believe he ate the wood venetian blinds. I have some #10 cans of nacho cheese sauce I need to can in jelly jars. Just haven't gotten to it yet. Bought some bulk powdered milk that needs to be dry canned in #10 cans, too. I buy cooked corn in #10 cans at Sams Club because it's cheaper that way, and our chickens like it (we have about 100 chickens). So I save the cans and ordered the lids from LDS. I line it with a gallon ziplock, add an oxygen absorber, and store dried food that way. Rodent proof (except the lid), they stack well. I save the little jars to use in my pantry, and refill from the big cans.